“It is not without personal emotion that I dissociate myself from this good company, with which I have worked and talked for over thirty years.”
About Richard Monckton Milnes
19 June 1809–11 August 1885
Richard Monckton Milnes, later Lord Houghton, was born on 19 June 1809 in London, into a family whose wealth, political standing, and Yorkshire connections gave him access to the governing and literary worlds of nineteenth-century Britain. He died on 11 August 1885 at Fryston Hall, near Pontefract in Yorkshire, the…